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Sunday, August 11, 2013

not really a poem, but still

"Be that girl who never backed down."Sounds good on paper.Sounds fierce, but I don't know what kind of girl,what kind of woman,that could even be.

Never backing down is the stuff of certain mens' conversations;you know, the ones with the flags in their back windowsjust above the plastic beer coolers.

If you want love in your life,if you want peace,if you are wise enough to choose your battles and think,then you must learn the art of backing down.

There are words for those who never back down, and they aren't pretty:bitchblowhardzealottyrant ReverendGrand Dragoncase #inmate # the Republican senator from--

Backing down doesn't mean giving up.Those who have pissed offthe woman who prepares their food,the woman who delivers their mail,the woman who buys their wives' birthday gifts,the woman whose hand rocks the cradle,have found this outno matter how long it took for the other shoe to drop.

Of course, there are times for not backing down.The Sioux and Sans Arc taught this to Colonel Custer.The women inside the Alamo,who could have left, but chose to stay with their brave men,demonstrated this.There were no pop divas inside those adobe walls,

but there were willows at San Jacinto.That's all I have to say._________

Wisdom is where you find it in life, but mostly through living. This poem is rich in it. There's a tendency, especially on the internet, to fabricate nice-sounding quotes(or to plunder them from the actual thinkers of the past) for the sound of them, for the nice heft to the words, but there's more to life than slogans and bumper-stickers, and nothing is as simple between human beings as a snappy phrase can make it seem. I think there is a lot of poetry in this Shay, especially the ending.

My new book !

Modesty spoken here.

kindred spirits

"I have been blessed with these two gorgeousWings and I refuse to load my heart with weights."

--Marina Tsvetaeva

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.” ― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

"The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all." — Ted Hughes

Poetry made from...

...trinkets, mojo, and double mocha latte!

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